Railway rail anchor



' G. A. PRATHER.

RAILWAY RAIL ANCHOR. APPLICATION HLED SEPT- 29, 1921.

1,416,576; Patentw May 16, 1922.

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GRILLS A PRATHER, or MILLIKEN, OOLORADO.

RAILWAY RAIL ANCHOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 16, 1922.

Application filed September 29, 1921. Serial No. 504,114.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GRILLs A. PRATHER, a citizen or the United States, residing at Milliken, in the county of lVeld, State of Colorado, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway Rail Anchors; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in anchoring devices and particularly to anchoring devices for railway rails.

()ne object of the invention is to provide an anchoring device for railway rails which is simple in construction strong and durable in operation, and which is readily adapted for use with rails now in use without modifications to the rails.

Another object is to provide a device of this character which serves, in addition to its function as a brace for the rails, as one of the bolts which holds the splice bar at the rail joint.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent from the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a railway showing the invention.

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the same.

Figure 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view on the line 3-3 of Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a perspective view of a modified form of bracing bolt.

Referring particularly to the accompanying drawing, 10 and 11 represent a pair of railway rails, the former of which has the joint 12 with the splice bars 13, and the bolts 14 therethrough. It will be noted, however, that the bolts 14 are disposed through the outermost holes of the bars 13 and rail ends. Through one of the inner holes of the bar 13 and rail ends, is disposed the threaded end of a long bolt or bar 15, nuts 16 being engaged thereon, on opposite sides of the rail ends, while its outer end portion is bent downwardly and outwardly and disposed through an inclined anchor post 17,

set in a bed of concrete 18, in the road-bed. Through the other inner hole of the bars 13 and rail ends is disposed a similar but slightly longer bolt or bar 19, the threaded end of which has the nuts 20 thereon, on opposite sides of the rail. This bolt or bar 19 also extends through an opening 21 in the other rail 11, and has its outer end portion bent downwardly and secured through the anchor post 22, which post is set in a concrete base 23, in the road-bed, at the side of the railway.

The ends of the bars 15 and 19, which pass through the anchor posts 17 and 22, are also threaded, and engaged on these threaded ends, at opposite sides of the posts are the nuts 24 and 25, whereby, upon turning the said nuts, the tension of the bars may be varied. Also, by turning the nuts at the opposite sides of the rail 10, the tension of the bars 15 and 19 can be changed.

This construction provides for the proper spacing of the rails, from each other, and also serves to prevent the rails from bodily movement sidewise, as in a washout on the railway.

Particular attention is called to the fact that the bolts 15 and 19 have the dual function, namely: to brace the rails against bodily movement, and as the splice bar bolts of the rail joints.

As seen in Figure 1 the modified form of bar includes a shank 15 having its outer end threaded in the samemanner as the bar 15, and for the same purpose, but that the other end of the bar is flattened and formed with an opening 26 for the reception 01" a bolt of the rail joint. This flattened end is bent across the intermediate portion to lie at right angles or approximately such an angle, to receive the joint bolt and permit the body of the bolt 15 to extend at the proper angle from the rail toward the anchor, in the ground.

VVha-t is claimed is:

The combination with the rails of a railway, and the splice bar of the joint thereof, of a pair of bars threaded at their opposite ends, each of said bars being disposed through certain of the bolt openings of the splice bar and rail, one of the said bars extending through the opposite rail of the rail- Way and having its other threaded end se- In testimony whereof, I affix my sigma cured in an anchor member, the other but ture, in the presence of two Witnesses.

extending toward the other side of the rail- Way and having its other threaded end secured in an anchor member, the said splice bar ends of the said bolt-s being arranged to serve as the bolts of the rail joint.

GRILLS A. FEATHER.

WVitnesses I. T. WALL, N. Z. NAVARRO. 

